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Grade 7 English HL Term 4 Test + Memo

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About this resource

Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for their Term 4 English Home Language assessment with this comprehensive 60-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1½ hours and assesses reading comprehension, visual literacy, summary writing and language structures and conventions.

The test covers:

  • Reading comprehension
  • Literal and higher-order questions
  • Themes and messages
  • Vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms
  • Visual literacy and advertisements
  • Target audience and advertising techniques
  • Summary writing
  • Identifying and rewriting main ideas
  • Subject and predicate
  • Adjectives and degrees of comparison
  • Simple present and simple past tense
  • Past and present continuous tense
  • Punctuation
  • Sentence types
  • Pronouns
  • Attributive adjectives

The 20-mark comprehension is based on a text about *Colleen Hoover and It Ends with Us***, requiring learners to interpret themes, characters, messages and the author's writing style.

The paper also includes a 10-mark visual text, a 50–60 word summary activity based on Blake Lively, and a 20-mark language section, giving learners varied practice across important Term 4 English skills

Total: 60 marks | Duration: 1½ hours | Full memorandum included | PDF format.

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